8"X12"
Batik on wood
Truntum motif.Symbol of awakening of love.The story is about the Queen who had so long enjoyed the king's love and attention,began to feel neglected since the King had found a new mistress.To forget her sadness and loneliness the Queen began to Batik.Without being aware of it, she made a motif in form of stars in dark sky, stars that in her loneliness become her intimate friends.The King noticed his wife batiking with such a dilligence and concentration and approached her,in order to observe the batik more closely.He asked her the name of the motifs,but she replied it had no name,from that day,the King continued to watch the Queen make the batik,and little by little his love for her returned.The Queen rejoiced that through her motif,the Kings love had been reawakened,or Tum Tum,and name it Truntum, the symbol of reawakened love
